Solano County Biographies
ELEAZER FRISBIE
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
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was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1829, and remained there until September, 1846,
when he sailed for California with Stevenson�s Regiment, arriving in San
Francisco in March, 1847. Was quartered in that city till the spring of 1848,
when he accompanied a detachment of his regiment to the mines to look for
deserters, of whom there were a number. This service occupied two months. The
force was embarked on a government schooner, which took ten days to reach
Sutter�s Fort (Sacramento) from San Francisco. On the return they took some
Government horses, and drove them to the city, after which Mr. Frisbie was taken
ill with a fever, from the effects of which he did not recover for a whole year.
In 1848 the regiment was disbanded. He then, by the advice of his physician,
proceeded to Sonoma for the benefit of his health, and, after recovering, opened
a store in that city, remaining there until 1850, when he removed to Benicia,
and carried on a butchery business, shipping meat to San Francisco for two
years. About this time the city of Vallejo was started, he therefore moved
thither. In 1854 Mr. Frisbie was elected a Justice of the Peace, served as an
Associate Justice, and was the first regularly appointed postmaster for the city
of Vallejo, an office he held from 1855 to 1857. Mr. F. resided continuously in
Vallejo, from 1851 to 1865, when he removed to Russian River Township, Sonoma
county, Cal., and there lived till the fall of 1870, being, for that period,
engaged in farming. In that year he returned to Vallejo, and was employed by
the Cal. P. R. R. Co. as wood agent. In 1872 was in the employment of the
Vallejo Land and Improvement, and Vallejo Gaslight Companies, as collector, till
Nov., 1875. In February, 1876, he commenced a dairy business, at Point Farm,
one mile from South Vallejo, which he still carries on, shipping large
quantities of milk to San Francisco daily, as well as supplying the surrounding
district. Mr. Frisbie married at Fairmount, N. J., June 25, 1858, Carrie E.
Klink, of Syracuse, N. Y., by whom he has seven children living: John B.,
Steven H., Cynthia J., Phoebe A., Edward E., Carrie E., Alice K.
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 349